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- Keywords
- Residential schools in Canada,
- Residential schools in Ontario,
- White children in residential schools,
- Hudson’s Bay Company employees,
- Canadian history,
- St. Anne’s Residential School,
- Fort Albany Ontario
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No Escape
Witness to a Canadian Genocide
by
Ron Gosbee
IN THE 1950S, AT FIVE YEARS OLD, Ron Gosbee, the son of the post manager for the Hudson’s Bay Company in remote Fort Albany, Ontario, was sent to the local St. Anne’s Indian Residential School with his two sisters. The only white children at the school at the time, they would become unwilling witnesses to the systemic cultural genocide against Canada’s Indigenous Peoples. While there, they too lived in fear of cruel nuns and priests, choked down inedible food, and were forced to maintain a rigorous daily schedule far from the warmth of their loving homes. Over sixty years later, Ron adds his unique perspective to the memories of fellow “inmates”, shining one more light on the trauma and neglect of generations of Indigenous survivors of residential schools in Canada.
“This book will help a new generation understand the systemic abuse and violence that was Canada’s state policy for Indigenous children for over a century”. —Excerpt from Forward by Charlie Angus, Federal Member of Parliament for Timmins-James Bay
RON GOSBEE felt compelled to write this memoir as a call to action; the effort helped him heal and find his voice, and is his own small part of a larger story that deserves national attention. He lives in rural southern Ontario, where he enjoys singing and playing his guitar, as well as discussing a wide range of topics including history, psychology and sociology.
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